Monday, December 17. 2012

Friday, I installed the connector to 84 track trolley frog and removed some old span wire in yard 8.

A rainy Saturday: BOD meeting, Cleaned up my area in the B&G building.

Sunday brought better weather. Two poles were pulled and one installed. One pole was removed on the North side of the connector track now that new spans were installed on the new pole and trolley wire transferred to them. At the Central Ave. crossing at yards 6,7,8, one old pole was pulled on the Northeast corner and a new 30 ft class 4 pole was set on the Southeast corner. The new pole is replacing an old rotten one and will help support the crossing.

What is a class 4 pole? A very good question. The strength of wood poles is determined by the length and diameter. The industry established standard critera to rate the strength. Since trees don't grow perfectly round, circumfrence is used instead of diameter. Class refers to the circumfrence range for a given strength. Class 1 is a fat pole. Class 10 is a very skinny pole. A class 4 pole is about 7" in diameter at the top.

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